Grain bristle
The crossword clue "Grain bristle" is answered by AWN, a 3-letter entry. Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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Used 20 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AWN
Every other clue in this collection answered by AWN, most used first.
- Barley bristle - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Bristle - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Plant bristle - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- Barley beard - used 41 times, most recently in 2020
- Grain beard - used 35 times, most recently in 2019
- Beard of grain - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
- Wheat beard - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
- Arista - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- Grass appendage - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Bristlelike appendage - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Botanical beard - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Bristle on barley or rye - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Grass bristle - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Wheat bristle - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Cereal grain - OAT, used 218 times
- Granola grain - OAT, used 117 times
- Cheerios grain - OAT, used 83 times
- Grain - OAT, used 56 times
- Whiskey grain - RYE, used 31 times
- Grain in Cheerios - OAT, used 27 times
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